Alex Gibney
Directing · Born 1953-10-23 · age 72 · New York City, New York, USA
Philip Alexander Gibney (/ˈɡɪbni/; born October 23, 1953; New York City) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time." Gibney's works as director include The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (winner of three Emmys in 2015), We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (the winner of three 2013 primetime Emmy awards), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (nominated in 2005 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (short-listed in 2011 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), Casino Jack and the United States of Money, and Taxi to the Dark Side (winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), focusing on a taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002. In 2019, he released his documentary Citizen K, about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian billionaire exile Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Titles
Billions
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Zero Days
Taxi to the Dark Side
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Painkiller
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Dirty Money
The Looming Tower
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Janis: Little Girl Blue
The Armstrong Lie
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Freakonomics
City of Ghosts
No End in Sight
The Family
The China Hustle
Crazy, Not Insane
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
How to Change Your Mind
History of the Eagles
The Killing Season
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
The Crime of the Century
Orwell: 2+2=5
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Cooked
The Innocence Files
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Agents of Chaos
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
Salt Fat Acid Heat
Sunshine Superman
Tiger
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Catching Hell
Citizen K
The Bibi Files
The First Wave
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
The Last Gladiators
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
The Soul of a Man
No Stone Unturned
Totally Under Control
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
The Blues
Mr. Untouchable
137 Shots
Finding Fela
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
Independent Lens
Venus and Serena